America

Broadcast:

Sunday 9 November 2003 8:00PM

German playwright Falk Richter's Seven Seconds - In God We Trust is an intense examination of American fears as 'terror circles the globe' (The Australian). Bombs, planes and gabbling media hysteria crash into suburban lives:

'Marge and three kids wait by the television. Watching. But who is watching who? And who is being protected from what?'

Also in this American edition of The Night Air, 'Last Night in New York'. Australian expatriate writer, Wednesday Kennedy goes into the streets in the days and weeks immediately the destruction of the World Trade Centre buildings. New Yorkers express their horror, outrage, and confusion at the attack. But as days pass, voices are also raised against war and American foreign policy. What emerges from the anguished diatribes, the arguments, the calls for revenge or peace - is the wounded yet resilient spirit of the city itself.